I've been in lockdown the past few weeks and it probably won't end any time soon. Luckily this has given me plenty of extra time working on the car.
Most of the work has been around getting all the front end panels mounted onto the car. I bought some 16mm x 1.2mm 4130 chromoly tube and a very cheap manual bender from ebay. The bender snapped during the first bend but I was able to modify it to mount in my vice and now it works surprisingly well.
The tube structure I'm building is very light and will be removable by taking out several bolts. First step was to make a rear mount on the chassis.
This is how all that turned out, one on each side.
Then it was just a matter of bending some tube and making some tabs to hold the fenders in place.
The whole thing is rather basic but it is surprisingly sturdy.
This is it after finishing both fender mounts. More tube which I have already bent up will continue around the front and attach to the top of the bumper. I have left that bit off for now and started work on the main reinforcements to the front chassis rails.
